From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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.

When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.

But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas