Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

A good beginning makes a good end.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.