"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge"

"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"

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

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

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

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

"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"

"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit"