As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture and lamps with too much oil so is the active part of the understanding with too much study.
There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain there at knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
These studies are a spur to the young a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night they accompany us when we travel they are with us in our country visits.
There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
I would live to study not study to live.
As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture and lamps with too much oil so is the active part of the understanding with too much study.
There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain there at knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics which are their principal study.
These studies are a spur to the young a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night they accompany us when we travel they are with us in our country visits.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.