You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.