What we don't understand we don't possess.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

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.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.