Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Exclusively of the abstract ...
Quotes from the same author
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child.
