The Public Can Only Be Really Moved

Over The Meeting Of The Lovers I Draw A Veil. The Burst Of Rapture With Which They Clasped Each Other In A Wild Embrace -- The Many Inquiries -- The Fond Regrets And Thrilling Hopes -- It Is Out Of My Power To Convey. Let Me, Therefore, Leave Them To Their Happiness.

Books Have Become Our Dearest Companions, Yielding Exquisite Delights And Inspiring Lofty Aims.

Ideas Are Forces; Our Acceptance Of One Determines Our Reception Of Others.

Roger Bacon, A Disciple Of The Arabs, Also Insisted On The Primary Necessity Of Mathematics, Without Which No Other Science Can Be Known; Yet By Mathematics It Is Clear That He Meant Something Very Different From What We Mean, Including Under That Head Even Dancing, Singing, Gesticulation, And Performance On Musical Instruments.

In Complex Trains Of Thought Signs Are Indispensable.