The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
What then is your duty? What the day demands.
Create, artist, do not talk.
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.