To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.