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Time makes more converts than reason.

I am I plus my circumstances.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.