All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.