A Drop Of Water Is As Powerful

Of All The Senseless Babble I Have Ever Had Occasion To Read, The Demonstrations Of These Philosophers Who Undertake To Tell Us All About The Nature Of God Would Be The Worst, If They Were Not Surpassed By The Still Greater Absurdities Of The Philosophers Who Try To Prove That There Is No God.

A Drop Of Water Is As Powerful As A Thunder-bolt.

Try To Learn Something About Everything And Everything About Something.

The Doctrine Of Transmigration… Was A Means Of Constructing A Plausible Vindication Of The Ways Of The Cosmos To Man; … None But Very Hasty Thinkers Will Reject It On The Grounds Of Inherent Absurdity.

I Can Assure You That There Is The Greatest Practical Benefit In Making A Few Failures Early In Life. You Learn That Which Is Of Inestimable Importance That There Are A Great Many People In The World Who Are Just As Clever As You Are. You Learn To Put Your Trust, By And By, In An Economy And Frugality Of The Exercise Of Your Powers, Both Moral And Intellectual; And You Very Soon Find Out, If You Have Not Found It Out Before, That Patience And Tenacity Of Purpose Are Worth More Than Twice Their Weight Of Cleverness.