“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.”