To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.