That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.