Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.