I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. — MARK TWAIN There

The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

You wouldn’t let your schooling interfere with your education.

He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

Ambitions tend to Remain undisturbed by Realities.

Nothing great would come of his endeavours, but what he aimed at he steadily perfected.

He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.

848. He that endures is not overcome.

Economists have never allowed their analysis to be influenced by psychologists of their time, but have always framed for themselves such assumptions about psychical processes as they have thought it desirable to make.

Pursue that which is not meddlesome.

He maintained this attitude up to the very end, and no man ever saw Socrates too much elated or too much depressed. Amid all the disturbance of Fortune, he was undisturbed.

Whilst never actually rebuffing a visitor, he always reared such a wall of reserve that few could think of anything to say to him which would not sound inane.