He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.