I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.