Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.

Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.