Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?