“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself”
“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself”
“If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horse”
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface”
“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head”
“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”
“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives”
“Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses”