If By Being Overstudious, We

Wonder Is The Foundation Of All Philosophy; Research, The Progress; Ignorance, The End. There Is, By Heavens, A Strong And Generous Kind Of Ignorance That Yields Nothing, For Honour And Courage, To Knowledge: An Ignorance To Conceive Which Needs No Less Knowledge Than To Conceive Knowledge.

Any Person Of Honor Chooses Rather To Lose His Honor Than To Lose His Conscience.

'tis The Sharpness Of Our Mind That Gives The Edge To Our Pains And Pleasures.

Books Are Pleasant, But If By Being Over-studious We Impair Our Health And Spoil Our Good Humour, Two Of The Best Things We Have, Let Us Give It Over. I, For My Part, Am One Of Those Who Think No Fruit Derived From Them Can Recompense So Great A Loss.

There Is Nothing Useless In Nature; Not Even Uselessness Itself