With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them....
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves by relating that we observe by affirming that we examine by showing that we look by writing that we think by pumping that we draw water into the well.
