People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.