No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.