Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.