silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

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

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

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament