While we read history we make history.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.