The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.