"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."

"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."

"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."

"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."

"In the depths of adversity, the greatest battles are fought within."

"It is a timeless truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience."

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."

"To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions."