My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature reflection and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us but we sip only little by...
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime it is in...
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not...
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why...
