Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

The expression of truth is simplicity.