A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

Hope is the best possession.

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.