His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.