In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

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

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

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