That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.