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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.