"A scholar who loves comfort is not..." - Quote by Confucius

“A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.”

“All men are born good.”

“I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.”

“When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.”

“By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.”

“I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.”

“It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.”

“Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.”

“There is no effort without error or shortcoming.”