Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

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

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.