The good is the greatest rival of the best.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.