The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

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

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.