She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.