nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

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

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.

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

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.