men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.