there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.