... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar..

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest..

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness..

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody..

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge..

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility..

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits..

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse..

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation..

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy..

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death..

One must desire something to be alive..

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own..

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the ….

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin..

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter..

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?.

moral vanity is the snare of good people..

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself..

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their o….