Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

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.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.