Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.