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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Scientia potentia est.Knowledge is power.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.