Affectation Is A Very Good Word When

People Often Become Scholars For The Same Reason They Become Soldiers: Simply Because They Are Unfit For Any Other Station. Their Right Hand Has To Earn Them A Livelihood; One Might Say They Lie Down Like Bears In Winter And Seek Sustenance From Their Paws.

He Who Says He Hates Every Kind Of Flattery, And Says It In Earnest, Certainly Does Not Yet Know Every Kind Of Flattery.

To Write Brashly About Some Things, It Is Almost Necessary Not To Know Much About Them.

Of All The Inventions Of Man I Doubt Whether Any Was More Easily Accomplished Than That Of A Heaven.

A Man Of Spirit Must Not Think Of The Word Difficulty As So Much As Existing. Away With It!