“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”

“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.”

“It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

“Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!”

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”

“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”