A problem with global reasons cannot effectively be met with local measures.

Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

Love sought is good but given unsought is better.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.