Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.