The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.