You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.
Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.
There is nothing more appalling than the wholesale way in which unthinking people plead to the Almighty the richest and most spiritual of His promises, and claim their immediate fulfillment, without themselves fulfilling one of the conditions either on which they are promised or can possibly be given.
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.