History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.