“Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity”

“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution”

“It is the mind that makes the body rich”

“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge”

“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”

“Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more”