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.

Every season of life has its compensations.

I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

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

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

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