To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!