All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.