“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.”

“A person hears only what they understand.”

“Duty is the demand of the hour.”

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”

“And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.”

“Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.”

“Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!”