Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Bright and illustrious illusions!

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.