What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.