Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.
Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.