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.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

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

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

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.

You can't have genius without patience.