Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Birds never sing in caves.