The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.