It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.