“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
