Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows some…

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.