“In my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayed and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has...”

“Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago," she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!”

“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”

“To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

“Love is like the measles. The older you get it the worse the attack.”

“The world doesn't come to the clever folks it comes to the stubborn obstinate one-idea-at-a-time people.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”