The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.