Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.