“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”

“We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.”

“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”

“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”

“Children need models rather than critics.”

“Never cut what you can untie”

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”