Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.