There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.