If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.