The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.