Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.