It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.