Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.