The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Patriotism ruins history.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

Manners form the great charm of women.