Frederic William Farrar

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.