There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.