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.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

In art, the best is good enough.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.