It's All Been Very Interesting.

The Knowledge Of Numbers Is One Of The Chief Distinctions Between Us And The Brutes.

I Have All My Life Been On My Guard Against The Information Conveyed By The Sense Of Hearing -- It Being One Of My Earliest Observations, The Universal Inclination Of Humankind Is To Be Led By The Ears, And I Am Sometimes Apt To Imagine That They Are Given To Men As They Are To Pitchers, Purposely That They May Be Carried About By Them.

Begin Nothing Without Considering What The End May Be.

Writers Of Novels And Romance In General Bring A Double Loss To Their Readers; Robbing Them Of Their Time And Money; Representing Men, Manners, And Things, That Never Have Been, Or Are Likely To Be.

People Are Never So Near Playing The Fool As When They Think Themselves Wise.