Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

The poem is a confession of faith.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.