Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.