Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right. - John Buchan

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.

The law and the constitution are like a child's pants. They've got to be made wider and longer as the child grows so as to fit him. If they're kept too tight, he'll burst them; and if you're in a hurry and make them too big all at once, they'll trip him up.

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.