Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing