Fate loves the fearless.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.