He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

It takes a great man to make a great listener

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

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

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."