reflection Quotes

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.