He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.