What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
Silence is safer than speech.
No great thing is created suddenly.
At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.