To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.