Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.