Who said “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition…”?

“He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”

“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”

“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”

“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.”

“The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.”

“A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”

“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!”

“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.”

“So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”

“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.”