Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to
hope when matters are hopeless.
Peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war.
But what is hope? When all else is lost, it is the one thing you may keep.
The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.
For what purpose have you prayed?"
"For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my companions have perished, at least I have known them. If the world is cruel, at least I have tasted kindness. I had to cross to the far side of the sky to taste it but, as you say, the world is full of miracles.
When princes flee battle, and knights turn free-lance, and barons rob pilgrims, what value has honor? Why, all the more, seeing how rare it has become.
Dirac found that the ratio of the electric force to the gravitational force of an electron-proton pair is roughly equal to the ratio of the age of the universe to the time it takes light to traverse an atom.