If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?