"The growth of wisdom may be gauged..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.”

“The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!”

“He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.”

“One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.”

“Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.”

“Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.”

“I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.”

“The wise man never loses his temper.”

“…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.”