It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.