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.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

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

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!