A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

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.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

I just kind of take every day at a time. I just know that I don't do anything that I don't want to do; I enjoy everything that I do and that's what you have to do to keep it good and keep it real.

What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.