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

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.