“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”