The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Genius Borrows nobly.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.