When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?