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

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Mystery is not profoundness.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.