You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
One can remain alive. . . if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.
Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
She'd also called me brave. . . unless she was talking to the catfish.
[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.