Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.