A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

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

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

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

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.