Gravity is the very essence of imposture; it not only mistakes other things, but is apt perpetually to mistake itself.
In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.
It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.
Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
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