The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.