Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.