A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.