It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.