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."
"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."