Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

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

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.