Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.