You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
History is the memory of States.
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.
If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.