The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.