If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

What we love to do we find time to do.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.