Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Today is a king in disguise.
Let us leave hurry to slaves.
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.