Jacob Purhard

“Nor have I forgotten sir. that the charity of his daughter delivered me from his power. I can forget injuries but never benefits.”
― Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

“I constantly sought knowledge and truth, and it became my belief that for gaining access to the effulgence and closeness to God, there is no better way than that of searching for truth and knowledge.”
― Alhazen

“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“The insult dishonors the one who infers it, not the one who receives it.”
― Diogenes of Sinope