All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.