History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.