“The brave person thinks of himself last of all.”

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature’s calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

The world’s history is the world’s judgment.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

I am better than my reputation.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality.

Only through Beauty’s morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Asking for help doesn’t make you weak, it makes you brave.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

It’s been really, really hard, but you’ve been so brave.