We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.