The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. - George Santayana

A man is morally free when...he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

It is an observation at first sight melancholy but in the end, perhaps, enlightening, that the earliest poets are the most ideal, and that primitive ages furnish the most heroic characters and have the clearest vision of a perfect life. The Homeric times must have been full of ignorance and suffering. In those little barbaric towns, in those camps and farm, in those shipyards, there must have been much insecurity and superstition. That age was singularly poor in all that concerns the convenience of life and the entertainment of the mind with arts and sciences. Yet it had a sense for civilizations.