Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

One must be something, in order to do something.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.