Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.