Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.