"Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it."

"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."

"We are always in a hurry to be happy, for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune."

"How can I be a good man if I don't know how to be a bad one?"

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."