The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.
If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
The road to Hades is easy to travel.
A good leader makes a good follower.
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.