He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.