Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.