• 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.