Habit is the deepest law of human nature

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.