All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

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

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.