No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.