A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate