The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.