It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.