“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone”
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“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ”
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something”
“I am fit for nothing but literature”
“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject”
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party”
“And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.”
“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good”
“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back”
“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never”
“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them”
“Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door”
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth”
“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.”
“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things”
“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything”
“To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts”
“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”
“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it”
“The world loves a spice of wickedness”