"Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been."

"A house that has a library in it has a soul."

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"I have good hope that there is something after death."

"A work well begun is half ended."

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

"The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man."

"All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom."

"I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it becomes my duty to go back to the cave in order to illuminate the minds of those imprisoned in the ‘darkness’ of sensory knowledge."

"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."

"An accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."

"Most men in power become villains."