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.

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.