History after all is the true poetry.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Thought will not work except in silence.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.