“You can do things that I cannot do. I can do things that you cannot do. Together we can do great things
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could
“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or senator, and remain fit for anything else
“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be
“Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
“It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled