What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.