"It is the greatest good for an..." - Quote by Socrates

“In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.”

“Let the questions be the curriculum.”

“If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all”

“The reward of patience Is patience.”

“Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.”

“The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in theinfringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.”

“Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.”

“And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.”

“The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.”