Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

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

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

To teach is to learn twice.