I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
We cannot reform our forefathers.
The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.