In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.