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

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

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

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

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.