There Is No Vaccine Against Stupidity.

Academic Chairs Are Many, But Wise And Noble Teachers Are Few; Lecture-rooms Are Numerous And Large, But The Number Of Young People Who Genuinely Thirst After Truth And Justice Is Small

For The Most Part, I Do The Thing Which My Own Nature Prompts Me To Do. It Is Embarrassing To Earn So Much Respect And Love For It.

When I Think Of The Most Able Students I Have Encountered In My Teaching - I Mean Those Who Have Distinguished Themselves Not Only By Skill But By Independence Of Thought - Then I Must Confess That All Have Had A Lively Interest In Epistemology.

Although I Have Been Prevented By Outward Circumstances From Observing A Strictly Vegetarian Diet, I Have Long Been An Adherent To The Cause In Principle. Besides Agreeing With The Aims Of Vegetarianism For Aesthetic And Moral Reasons, It Is My View That A Vegetarian Manner Of Living By Its Purely Physical Effect On The Human Temperament Would Most Beneficially Influence The Lot Of Mankind.

Curiosity Is A Delicate Little Plant That, Aside From Stimulation, Stands Mainly In Need Of Freedom.