The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.