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

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

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

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

All things are known to the soul.