"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."