Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.