Modesty and dew love the shade.
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.