Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Parce que c'etait lui; parce que c'etait moi.

Un peu de chaque chose, et rien du tout, a la francaise.

Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.