Laws are all made by old people and by men. Youths and women want the exceptions, old people the rules.
It is not the intelligent man who rules, but intelligence; not the wise man, but wisdom.
To praise a man is to put oneself on his level.
It is not enough to know, we must also apply; it is not enough to will, we must also do.
Chinese, Indian, and Egyptian antiquities are never more than curiosities; it is well to make acquaintance with them; but in point of moral and æsthetic culture they can help us little.