Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

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

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.