“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”

“A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!”

“a man only knows what he's experienced”

“A man is what he thinks about all day long”

“A man is known by the books he reads.”