The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

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

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.