When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
... 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.
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.