Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.