Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Hope is the mother of faith.
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.