Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
A brave mind is always impregnable.
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
Hope is a vigorous principle ... It sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
