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.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.