Love can do much, but duty more.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

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.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.