Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.