A Man Used To Vicissitudes Is Not

The True Genius Is A Mind Of Large General Powers, Accidentally Determined To Some Particular Direction.

To Be Prejudiced Is Always To Be Weak

Persius Has Justly Observed, That Knowledge Is Nothing To Him Who Is Not Known By Others To Possess It: To The Scholar Himself It Is Nothing With Respect Either To Honour Or Advantage, For The World Cannot Reward Those Qualities Which Are Concealed From It; With Respect To Others It Is Nothing, Because It Affords No Help To Ignorance Or Errour.

In My Early Years I Read Very Hard. It Is A Sad Reflection, But A True One, That I Knew Almost As Much At Eighteen As I Do Now.

The Disturbers Of Our Happiness, In This World, Are Our Desires, Our Griefs, And Our Fears.