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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.