History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.