A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.