Alphabetical Index of Authors

1. Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
2. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
3. Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
4. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
5. Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
6. Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
7. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
8. Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
9. No human thing is of serious importance.
10. Friends have all things in common.
11. I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
12. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.