If Brandy Was Made Out Of Sparrows

One Cannot Demand Of A Scholar That He Show Himself A Scholar Everywhere In Society, But The Whole Tenor Of His Behavior Must None The Less Betray The Thinker, He Must Always Be Instructive, His Way Of Judging A Thing Must Even In The Smallest Matters Be Such That People Can See What It Will Amount To When, Quietly And Self-collected, He Puts This Power To Scholarly Use.

It Is A Sure Evidence Of A Good Book If It Pleases Us More And More As We Grow Older.

One Might Call Habit A Moral Friction: Something That Prevents The Mind From Gliding Over Things But Connects It With Them And Makes It Hard For It To Free Itself From Them.

It Is In Most Cases More Difficult To Make Intelligent People Believe That You Are What You Are Not, Than Really To Become What You Would Appear To Be.

Everyone Is Perfectly Willing To Learn From Unpleasant Experience - If Only The Damage Of The First Lesson Could Be Repaired.