Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.