Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.