“Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”
“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.”
“The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.”
“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”
“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.”