Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.