In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement. - John Lancaster Spalding

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.

Philosophers and theologians, like the vulgar, prefer contradiction to enlightenment. They refute one another more gladly than they learn from one another, as though man lived by shunning error and not by loving truth. Accept their formulas and they sink back into their easy chairs and comfortably doze.