“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. ”

“True Genuis often goes unnoticed and unappreciated. Only through the lense of time do we see genuis and how it has affected the world around us.”

“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”

“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.”

“It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.”

“It is surprising how many times a good feeling can be confused with a bad one. Often one is unsure which feeling it really is until much later.”