Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diver...ting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, f...or the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey... or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a p...rettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diver...ting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »