No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
He who hates vice hates men.
Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.
It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.