"When night hath set her silver lamp on high, Then is the time for study."

"The seers of old had fully restrained selves, and were austere. Having abandoned the five strands of sensual pleasure…"

"Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year."

"It is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle …"

"Me therefore studious of laborious ease."

"Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil."

"A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than …"

"A subject interests me and holds my attention only so long as it presents me with difficulties, only so long as I am …"

"Studious of elegance and ease."

"Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring…"