Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.