Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination...

“have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly f…”

“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocri…”

“The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flatterin…”

“No truly great person ever thought themselves so.”