"A young man is embarrassed to question an older one."

"There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love."

"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."

"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."

"Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy."

"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back."

"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have."

"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth."

"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."

"Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past."

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."