Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.