 Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. |
| I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. |
| As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. |
| The eye is the notebook of the poet. |
| He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. |
| The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. |
| Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. |
| Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. |
| There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. |
| The surest plan to make a man is, think him so. |
| The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. |
| Every person born into this world their work is born with them. |
| Freedom is the only law which genius knows. |
| Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. |
| True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. |
| The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. |
| Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. |
| Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. |
| What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. |
| One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. |
