A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.