Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. |
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. |
She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition. |
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. |
There is no influence like the influence of habit. |
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. |
There was no tragedy in his death -death is a magnificent ally; it untangles knots. |
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. |
Tomorrow is no man's gift. |
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. |
What a nice mob you press fellows are - wholesale scavengers! |