"O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall."

"For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal."

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."

"Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity."

"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."

"The excellent becomes the permanent."

"Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark."

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."