Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

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.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.