I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone in a single cottage on the top of a mountain a mile from any habitation? He replied that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Sciences may be learned by rote but wisdom not.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
