Men Are Never Very Wise

It Is Far More Important To Me To Preserve An Unblemished Conscience Than To Compass Any Object However Great.

The Fewer The Voices On The Side Of Truth, The More Distinct And Strong Must Be Your Own.

Labor Is Discovered To Be The Grand Conqueror, Enriching And Building Up Nations More Surely Than The Proudest Battles.

No Man Receives The Full Culture Of A Man In Whom The Sensibility To The Beautiful Is Not Cherished; And There Is No Condition Of Life From Which It Should Be Excluded. Of All Luxuries This Is The Cheapest, And The Most At Hand, And Most Important To Those Conditions Where Coarse Labor Tends To Give Grossness To The Mind.

It Is Chiefly Through Books That We Enjoy The Intercourse With Superior Minds.