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.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.