Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.