“If i had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born.”

“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.”

“If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.”

“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.”

“Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing.”

“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”

“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”