History, We Know, Is Apt To Repeat

It Is As Useless To Fight Against The Interpretations Of Ignorance As To Whip The Fog.

No Compliment Can Be Eloquent, Except As An Expression Of Indifference.

Men Can Do Nothing Without The Make-believe Of A Beginning.

In Rome It Seems As If There Were So Many Things Which Are More Wanted In The World Than Pictures.

Our Deeds Are Like Children That Are Born To Us; They Live And Act Apart From Our Own Will. Nay, Children May Be Strangled, But Deeds Never: They Have An Indestructible Life Both In And Out Of Our Consciousness.