I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

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

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

You can't have genius without patience.