Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
History: a collection of epitaphs.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.