Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing outOutcry is the only outburst, if you can’t shout

The ability to dream, be brave, and love, is never guaranteed, but must always be assumed.

Note to self: Caymen is very good at sarcasm.”“If you’re recording notes for an official record, I’d like the word ‘very’ stricken and replaced with ‘exceptionally.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible.