The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Laws are inoperative in war