A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
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He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
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A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
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