Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
-Sallust
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.