He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.