The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.