What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.