If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we read more

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.

Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.

We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had read more

We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.

It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.

It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.