'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
We had a very successful trip to Russia we got back.
Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred, one never worried about the minor ones.
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
He only may chastise who loves.
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
England is a nation of voyeurs.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Hunting God is a great adventure.