Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.