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It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.