"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing"

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me"

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child"

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers"

"Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned"

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness"

"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad"

"Immortality - a fate worse than death"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"