When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.