Cultivate That Kind Of Knowledge Which Enables

People Who Have Read A Good Deal Rarely Make Great Discoveries. I Do Not Say This In Excuse Of Laziness, But Because Invention Presupposes An Extensive Independent Contemplation Of Things.

The Greatest Events Occur Without Intention Playing Any Part In Them; Chance Makes Good Mistakes And Undoes The Most Carefully Planned Undertaking. The World's Greatest Events Are Not Produced, They Happen.

Universal Morality Is To Be Found In Little Everyday Penny-events Just As Much As In Great Ones.

It Thunders, Howls, Roars, Hisses, Whistles, Blusters, Hums, Growls, Rumbles, Squeaks, Groans, Sings, Crackles, Cracks, Rattles, Flickers, Clicks, Snarls, Tumbles, Whimpers, Whines, Rustles, Murmurs, Crashes, Clucks, To Gurgle, Tinkles, Blows, Snores, Claps, To Lisp, To Cough, It Boils, To Scream, To Weep, To Sob, To Croak, To Stutter, To Lisp, To Coo, To Breathe, To Clash, To Bleat, To Neigh, To Grumble, To Scrape, To Bubble. These Words, And Others Like Them, Which Express Sounds Are More Than Mere Symbols: They Are A Kind Of Hieroglyphics For The Ear.

There Are Two Ways Of Extending Life: Firstly By Moving The Two Points "born" And "died" Farther Away From One Another. The Other Method Is To Go More Slowly And Leave The Two Points Wherever God Wills They Should Be, And This Method Is For The Philosophers.