"What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written."

"Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal."

"I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow."

"She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book."

"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

"Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate."

"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword"

"I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much."

"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

"Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it."

"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force."

"Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself."

"The limit of man's knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination."

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."

"More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral."

"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

"What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."

"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men"

"One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid"

"Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline."