Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]