Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.