A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

No crime has been without a precedent.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.