For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.

The emotions of the game do not change.

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