Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. The young look forth across the sea to a mirage of fairylands filled with hidden treasures; the aged turn to the fading past, and through the mist and haze that veils once familiar scenes, bygone events assume weird and fanciful proportions.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation…

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. As one journeys along he gains experiences and even some ideas. Accumu…

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excep…

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less w…

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won …

The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.