What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.