All things are only transitory.

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

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.