Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
My books are friends that never fail me.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.