Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
What ignorance there is in human minds.
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
The result proves the wisdom of the act.