It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.