It Is The Contest That Delights Us,

If Our Condition Were Truly Happy, We Would Not Need Diversion From Thinking Of It In Order To Make Ourselves Happy.

Earnestness Is Enthusiasm Tempered By Reason.

If You Do Not Love Too Much, You Do Not Love Enough.

Knowledge Has Two Extremes. The First Is The Pure Natural Ignorance In Which All Men Find Themselves At Birth. The Other Extreme Is That Reached By Great Minds, Who, Having Run Through All That Men Can Know, Find They Know Nothing, And Come Back Again To That Same Natural Ignorance From Which They Set Out; This Is A Learned Ignorance Which Is Conscious Of Itself.

When We Read Too Fast Or Too Slowly, We Understand Nothing.