What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.