I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.