A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.