Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.