Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.