When One Is Polite In

Everything That We Call Invention Or Discovery In The Higher Sense Of The Word Is The Serious Exercise And Activity Of An Original Feeling For Truth, Which, After A Long Course Of Silent Cultivation, Suddenly Flashes Out Into Fruitful Knowledge.

Happy The Man Who Early Learns The Wide Chasm That Lies Between His Wishes And His Powers.

Man's Highest Merit Always Is, As Much As Possible, To Rule External Circumstances And As Little As Possible To Let Himself Be Ruled By Them.

Talent Develops In Quiet, Alone; Character Is Sharpened In The Torrent Of The World.

Everything Is Both Simpler Than We Can Imagine And More Entangled Than We Can Conceive.