To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

In comradeship is danger countered best.