Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.

"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."

"Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned - the habit of making history into the proof of their theories."

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.