Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.