That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Blame is safer than praise

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.