Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
School itself is the only true preparation for it.
Error is related to truth as sleep to waking. I have observed that on awakening from error a man turns again to truth as with new vigour.
Every one suffers who does not work for himself. A man works for others to have them share in his joy.
Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common-sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.