Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.