One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

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.

Fate loves the fearless.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.