I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.