Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
It is good to love the unknown.
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.