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.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.