"The best thing for disturbances of the spring," replied Merly, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatonies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disoder of your veings, you may miss your only love and lose your moneys to a monster, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. there is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the poor mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and enver dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn - pur science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And, then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theo-criticism and geography and history and economics, why, you can start to make a cartwheel our of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty ears learning to begin to learn to beat your advesary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics, until it is time to learn to plow." - The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White