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

“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.”

“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.”

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

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”

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

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen”