That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.