"The judgment of posterity is truer, because..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He who suffers, remembers.”

“I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.”

“O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!”

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.”

“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.”

“Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.”

“Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.”

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”