A University should be a place of light of liberty and of learning.

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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

There is no education like adversity.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.