I've never let my school interfere with my education.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.