No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.