Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

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

Faith is hidden household capital.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.