Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.