The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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