Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
Mourning is not forgetting. . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately. . . while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous demands upon their friends with no other excuse than their painful need.
Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
Love so seldom means happiness.
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.
It’s all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing…you blink your eyes and somebody says ‘Goodnight’ to you.
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.