Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable…

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable…

— Bathsua Makin

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

— Thomas Carlyle

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good;…

— Thomas Carlyle

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

— Thomas Carlyle

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

— Steven Wilson

There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in…

— King C. Gillette

The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions…

— William J. Clinton

I think it's important that 'Star Wars' characters speak universally, to kids and to people.

— Dave Filoni

“Whisky was almost universally used.”

— Henry Ketcham

Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

— Marina and the Diamonds

“while an adult could rarely be universally loved, everyone could love the right kid.”

— Neal Shusterman

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

— Harold Bloom

I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.

— Marc Andreessen

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

— Walt Disney