| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. |
| He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop. |
| Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. |
| Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. |
| It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. |
| It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. |
| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. |
| Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. |
| Live always in the best company when you read. |
| Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. |
| You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. |
| To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. |
| He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. |
| Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. |
| There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all. |
| Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. |
