Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
