Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.