It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Earth endures; Stars abide.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.