We expect a great man to be a good reader.
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
I think no virtue goes with size.
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.