Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

One must be something to be able to do something.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

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.