Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.