Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.