Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it
only requires opportunity.--_George Eliot._
~Cultivation.~--Cultivation is the economy of force.--_Liebig._
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a
perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our
consciousness its own light and its own mirror. Hence there is the less
reason to be surprised at our inability to enter fully into the feelings
and characters of others. No one who has not a complete knowledge of
himself will ever have a true understanding of another.--_Novalis._
Neither the naked hand, nor the understanding, left to itself, can do
much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps of which the
need is not less for the understanding than the hand.--_Bacon._
... Without art, a nation is a soulless body; without science, a
straying wanderer. Without warmth and light, nature cannot thrive, nor
humanity increase: the light and warmth of humanity is "art and
science."--_Kozlay._
~Cunning.~--Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than
from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no
extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.--_Johnson._
Cleverness and cunning are incompatible. I never saw them united. The
latter is the resource of the weak, and is only natural to them;
children and fools are always cunning, but clever people
never.--_Byron._