Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.