Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.