“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!