Silence is sorrow's best food.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.