Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

The breath of the mind is attention.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.