“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”

“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”