It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.
Writing is an adventure.
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.