Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake tucked away like a pocket mirror.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That's why they become politicians.

A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously