... 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.

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.

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.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

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

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.