The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.