Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

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

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.