If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.