“To teach is to learn twice.”

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Children need models rather than critics.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Space is the stature of God.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Every relationship you have, you’re learning and growing and taking something from that.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!