Adhesion To One Idea Is Monomania; To

There Are Ceremonious Bows That Repel One Like A Cudgel.

To No Circumstance Is The Wide Diffusion Of Error In The World More Owing Than To Our Habit Of Adopting Conclusions From Insufficiently Established Data. An Indispensable Preliminary, Then, In Every Investigation, Is To Get At Facts. Until These Are Arrived At, Every Opinion, Theory, Or System, However Ingeniously Framed, Must Necessarily Rest Upon An Uncertain Basis.

The Lively And Mercurial Are As Open Books, With The Leaves Turned Down At The Notable Passages. Their Souls Sit At The Windows Of Their Eyes, Seeing And To Be Seen.

Dreamers Are Half-way Men Of Thought, And Men Of Thought Are Half-way Men Of Action.

Examples Are Few Of Men Ruined By Giving.