“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty”

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday”

“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth”

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”

“Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand”

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them”