It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
death was the price of life.
An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.
By her shining and her power he knew her.
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
To hate excellence is to hate the gods.