Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.