A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.