We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.