The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

Is not light grander than fire?

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.