But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.