It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.