Man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience. For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them. There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. For precocity, some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. An infallible way of conciliating a tiger is to let oneself be devoured. We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. The writing-brush leaves its mark.