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.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.