What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.