Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.