“But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

“No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.”

“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”

“Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.”

“His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.”

“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

“The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.”

“However the three classes of beings created by the manners are:
The man who works;
The man who thinks;
The man who does nothing.”

“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”