In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.