“There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets.”

“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.”

“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”

“He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.”

“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”

“It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.”

“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”