Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.