“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it”

“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance”

“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”

“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity”

“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge”

“Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more”