(6 quotes found)
“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”
Humphrey Davy
“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort”
“The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.”
“I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.”
“The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.”
“When Sir Humphry Davy returned from a visit to Paris he was asked how the picture galleries had impressed him. "The finest collection of frames I ever saw," he said.”
