“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy”

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”

“There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”

“If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.”

“Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing.”

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”