What is human is immortal!

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

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

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.