To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.