Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.