He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.