When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

Sacrifice life to truth.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.