Limited reading enabled me to thoroughly digest what I did read.

A votary of truth must exercise the greatest caution.

He who would go in for novel experiments must begin with himself.

A public worker should not make statements of which he has not made sure.

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

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;