Belief gets in the way of learning.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
