To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.