I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.