I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.