In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

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

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.