Be Ashamed To Die Until You Have

An Ignorant Man Is Always Able To Say Yes Or No Immediately To Any Proposition. To A Wise Man, Comparatively Few Things Can Be Propounded Which Do Not Require A Response With Qualifications, With Discriminations, With Proportion.

If You Can Express Yourself So As To Be Perfectly Understood In Ten Words, Never Use A Dozen.

The Soul Of The Truly Benevolent Man Does Not Seem To Reside Much In His Own Body. Its Life, To A Great Extent, Is A Mere Reflex Of The Lives Of Others. It Migrates Into Their Bodies, And Identifying Its Existence With Their Existence, Finds Its Own Happiness In Increasing And Prolonging Their Pleasures, In Extinguishing Or Solacing Their Pains.

There Is A Deeper Pleasure In Following Truth To The Scaffold Or The Cross, Than In Joining The Multitudinous Retinue, And Mingling Our Shouts With Theirs, When Victorious Error Celebrates Its Triumphs.

A Teacher Should, Above All Things, First Induce A Desire In The Pupil For The Acquisition He Wishes To Impart.