Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.