The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.