There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued |
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. |
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. |
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. |
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth |
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall |
Veracity is the heart of morality. |
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. |
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. |