Man Is Perhaps Half Mind And Half

If Nature Be Regarded As The Teacher And We Poor Human Beings As Her Pupils, The Human Race Presents A Very Curious Picture. We All Sit Together At A Lecture And Possess The Necessary Principles For Understanding It, Yet We Always Pay More Attention To The Chatter Of Our Fellow Students Than To The Lecturer's Discourse. Or, If Our Neighbor Copies Something Down, We Sneak It From Him, Stealing What He Himself May Have Heard Imperfectly, And Add It To Our Own Errors Of Spelling And Opinion.

Cautiousness In Judgment Is Nowadays To Be Recommended To Each And Every One: If We Gained Only One Incontestable Truth Every Ten Years From Each Of Our Philosophical Writers The Harvest We Reaped Would Be Sufficient.

It Is In The Gift For Employing All The Vicissitudes Of Life To One's Own Advantage And To That Of One's Craft That A Large Part Of Genius Consists.

Once We Know Our Weaknesses They Cease To Do Us Any Harm.

A Man Is Never More Serious Than When He Praise Himself.