"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God."

"Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine."

"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."

"Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine."

"There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing."

"We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures."

"Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything."

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."