"There is nothing more frightful than for..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.”

“Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.”

“Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?”

“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

“Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.”

“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”

“Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.”

“When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.”

“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”