Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

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

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

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

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

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.