A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.