To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!