The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is compos sui if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
I found that a strict and regular life is the true way to conquer nature, and that the proverb which says that nature is so powerful is in part false.