"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself."

"The human race is a monotonous affair. What one does, the other does, and what one suffers, the other suffers."