"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."

"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling."

"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same."

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

"It is a steadfast truth that the spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks."

"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."

"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."