He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
God knows better than we do what we need.
A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.