Learning Is Its Own Exceeding Great Reward.

A Situation In A Public Office Is Secure, But Laborious And Mechanical, And Without The Great Springs Of Life, Hope And Fear.

Books Let Us Into Their Souls And Lay Open To Us The Secrets Of Our Own.

Success In Business Is Seldom Owing To Uncommon Talents Or Original Power Which Is Untractable And Self-willed, But To The Greatest Degree Of Commonplace Capacity.

Poverty, When It Is Voluntary, Is Never Despicable, But Takes An Heroical Aspect.

The Contemplation Of Truth And Beauty Is The Proper Object For Which We Were Created, Which Calls Forth The Most Intense Desires Of The Soul, And Of Which It Never Tires.