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.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.