Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.