Life Is A Compromise Of What Your

In My Youth I Hoped To Do Great Things; Now I Shall Be Satisfied To Get Through Without Scandal.

Nations Touch At Their Summits.

To A Great Experience One Thing Is Essential, An Experiencing Nature.

Nothing Is More Unpleasant Than A Virtuous Person With A Mean Mind.

We Think Of Euclid As Of Fine Ice; We Admire Newton As We Admire The Peak Of Teneriffe. Even The Intensest Labors, The Most Remote Triumphs Of The Abstract Intellect, Seem To Carry Us Into A Region Different From Our Own-to Be In A Terra Incognita Of Pure Reasoning, To Cast A Chill On Human Glory.