“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.