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About The Book: Excerpt from Glimpses of Truth: With Essays on Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion. Emerson the study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy. Motherwell. Good maxims are germs of all good; firmly impressed on the memory they nourish the will joubert. Exclusively of the abstract sciences the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms; and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. - coleridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. About The Author : J. L. Spalding (1840-1916) was born on June 2, 1840, in Lebanon, Kentucky. He graduated in 1856 from St. Mary's College in St. Mary's, Kentucky, which had been founded by William Byrne and George Elder. The Spaldings and the Elders were related by marriage, Thomas Elder having married Elizabeth Spalding. Elizabeth was the paternal aunt of Catherine Spalding, co-founder of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. Thomas and Elizabeth were the grandparents of William Henry Elder, Archbishop of Cincinnati. John Lancaster Spalding was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.