When Defeat Is Inevitable, It Is Wisest

Men, Even When Alone, Lighten Their Labors By Song, However Rude It May Be.

As Regards Parents, I Should Like To See Them As Highly Educated As Possible, And I Do Not Restrict This Remark To Fathers Alone.

For It Would Have Been Better That Man Should Have Been Born Dumb, Nay, Void Of All Reason, Rather Than That He Should Employ The Gifts Of Providence To The Destruction Of His Neighbor.

Consequently The Student Who Is Devoid Of Talent Will Derive No More Profit From This Work Than Barren Soil From A Treatise On Agriculture.

The Soul Languishing In Obscurity Contracts A Kind Of Rust, Or Abandons Itself To The Chimera Of Presumption; For It Is Natural For It To Acquire Something, Even When Separated From Any One.