Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

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

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

To see the world is to judge the judges.