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

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.