"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."

"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."

"One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies."

"If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow."

"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls."