To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.