How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.