Patriotism Corrupts History.

Hope Is The Second Soul Of The Unhappy.

The Absence Of Temptation Is The Absence Of Virtue.

Beware Of Dissipating Your Powers; Strive Constantly To Concentrate Them.

It Is Better To Be Doing The Most Insignificant Thing Than To Reckon Even A Half-hour Insignificant.

We Must Not Hope To Be Mowers, And To Gather The Ripe Gold Ears, Unless We Have First Been Sowers And Water The Furrows With Tears. It Is Not Just As We Take It, This Mystical World Of Ours, Life's Field Will Yield As We Make It A Harvest Of Thorns Or Of Flowers.