In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

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

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.