Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.