The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms is the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through the truth.

To teach is to learn twice over.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Genius begins with great works; labor alone finishes them.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Children need role models rather than critics.