Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.