The student must remember, for his consolation†that his failures are almost as important to the cause of scienceand tothosewhofollow himinthesameroad, as his successes. It is much to know what we cannot do in any given directionöthe first step, indeed, toward the accomplishment of what we can do.

-Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe)
  Geological Sketches.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young.

-Flecker,James Elroy
  'To a Poet  a ThousandYears Hence'.

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.

-Thoreau, Henry David
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Sounds'.