A battle lost or won is easily described understood and appreciated but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection as well as observation to appreciate it.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find but symmetrical men never.

A great empire like a great cake is most easily diminished at the edges.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Just in general any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Any man may easily do harm but not every man can do good to another.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily and the raw material cost so little that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.