...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

What a lot of things I don't need.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?