If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.