The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.