If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.