When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.
No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.