It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.