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.