Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.