Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.