Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.