The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
Thought makes everything fit for use.
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
Great men exist that there might be greater men.
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?