Historical Legends

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength

They can enslave your body. Your will is yours alone

Reserve your right to think — for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all

The truth does not contradict truth. Reason is the highest faculty of the human being

The engine can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. And what we can imagine is without limit

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries

It is not the strongest that survive, but those most responsive to change

Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more

All the world's a stage. The question is: what part are you playing?

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect

Common sense is not so common. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one

To travel is to know that you are not the centre. Everything is larger than you imagined

I am a feather on the breath of God. But what a feather may compose

I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger

If there is no struggle, there is no progress

I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves

Learning never exhausts the mind. Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve