Convictions do not imply reasons.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

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

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

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.