He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.