People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.