George Henry Lewes Mean Quotations

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.