Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.