Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
History: gossip well told.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better