“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
