The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

Knowledge must come through action.

Opportunity has power over all things.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.