“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them”
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them”
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficult”
“Travelling expands the mind rarely”
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head”
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. ”
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
“The less men think, the more they talk. ”