Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

Popularity is for dolls.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.