Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.