A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.