It Is In Most Cases More Difficult

Just As We Outgrow A Pair Of Trousers, We Outgrow Acquaintances, Libraries, Principles, Etc., At Times Before They're Worn Out And Times - And This Is The Worst Of All - Before We Have New Ones.

The Highest Point To Which A Weak But Experienced Mind Can Rise Is Detecting The Weakness Of Better Men.

Astronomy Is Perhaps The Science Whose Discoveries Owe Least To Chance, In Which Human Understanding Appears In Its Whole Magnitude, And Through Which Man Can Best Learn How Small He Is.

Pain Warns Us Not To Exert Our Limbs To The Point Of Breaking Them. How Much Knowledge Would We Not Need To Recognize This By The Exercise Of Mere Reason.

He Swallowed A Lot Of Wisdom, But All Of It Seems To Have Gone Down The Wrong Way.