Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that . . . just loafed, I suppose.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
That a representative owes the people not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Solitude is the place of purification.
Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kinds of the world.
It is very easy to forgive other their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
. . . for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs.