I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.