It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.