Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
History is the new poetry.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.