The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

The good is the beautiful.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.