What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!