"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."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"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."