A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
History [is] a distillation of rumor.
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead. Therefore we must learn both arts.
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
