Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Wisdom is infused into every form.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.