A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.