Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.