One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.