He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?