Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

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.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

Labor humanizes, exalts.