Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

With knowledge grows doubt.