"We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.”

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”

“Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.”

“An age is the reversal of an age:When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,We lived like men that watch a painted stage.What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:It had not touched our lives.”

“Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.”

“To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.”

“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”

“Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.”

“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”