"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last."

"The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

"The white man's burden is to civilize the savage races; it is a duty laid upon us by God."