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

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.