“To be rather than to seem.”

“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”

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

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”