It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.