The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.