If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

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

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

You can't have genius without patience.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.