It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.