To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Books wind into the heart.
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.