If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.