The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Some will always be above others.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

The highest virtue is always against the law.