Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.