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.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.