WATT DISCOVERING THE CONDENSATION OF STEAM
[CHAPTER IV]
OVER AND UNDERDOING
If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.—Franklin.
Learn to do, without overdoing. Too much striving for success is as bad as too little.
Bishop Hall says: “Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
The only true conquests—those which awaken no regrets—are those obtained over our ignorance.—Napoleon.
“You have too much respect upon the world,” Shakespeare tells us. “They lose it that do buy it with much care.”
Do not cram books into your head until you crowd pleasant thinking out of it.