...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
Only fools want to be great.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.