Thomas Hood

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.