People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil. '
When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite.
The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.
As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.