“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

“C'est l'inconnu qui excite l'ardeur des savants, qui, dans le seul connu, se flétriraient.”

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question is a fool forever. O-# It is the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”

“As a rule, he or she that has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”

“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”