The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.