Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

A determined soul can never be defeated in life.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

When you're young, you don't realize that things are going to pass and things will move and shift.

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.