Cowardice often preserves life.
Nothing is as powerful in the world as an idea whose opportunity has arrived.
Victor Hugo
In a state of doubt, suspend judgment.
Pythagoras
Rambling is the Sunday of thought.
Henri Amiel
I translate St. Thomas Aquinas as follows: there are three things necessary for beauty: integrity, harmony and luminosity. Do these things correspond to the phases of apprehension?
James Joyce
Oh, how good it is / in youth, when hope / is still long, and our painful past is brief / and the memory of things past, / even if they were so...
Giacomo Leopardi