Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Keep your friendships in repair.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.