No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.