Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.