A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company. - John Lancaster Spalding

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.