The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.