Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.