If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.
The years teach much which the days never know.
Truth is the summit of being.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.
When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.