"Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know."

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."

"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

"The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth."

"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."

"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."

"Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold."

"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."

"Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy."

"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."

"Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

"We must be doing something to be happy."

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English."

"Words are the only things that last for ever."

"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

"The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right."

"Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity."

"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

"Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others."

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."

"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."

"The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body."

"Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought."

"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

"Faith is necessary to victory."

"It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed."

"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush."

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."

"Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate."

"Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours)."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture."

"Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal."

"The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature."

"A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means."

"The soul of dispatch is decision."

"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."

"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

"None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that."

"The more we do, the more we can do."

"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

"A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it."

"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."