In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.