If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. Votes: 10
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. Votes: 0
Deeds survive the doers. Votes: 0
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! Votes: 0
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. Votes: 0
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. Votes: 0
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. Votes: 0
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. Votes: 0
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night. Votes: 0
Knowledge is a mimic creation. Votes: 0
Love must be the same in all worlds. Votes: 0
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. Votes: 0
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice. Votes: 0
School is the cheapest police. Votes: 0
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects. Votes: 0
Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. Votes: 0
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. Votes: 0