No Laws, However Stringent, Can Make The

With Will One Can Do Anything.

Great Men Are Always Exceptional Men; And Greatness Itself Is But Comparative. Indeed, The Range Of Most Men In Life Is So Limited That Very Few Have The Opportunity Of Being Great.

When Typhus Or Cholera Breaks Out, They Tell Us That Nobody Is To Blame. That Terrible Nobody! How Much He Has To Answer For. More Mischief Is Done By Nobody Than By All The World Besides.

A Great Deal Of What Passes By The Name Of Patriotism In These Days Consists Of The Merest Bigotry And Narrow-mindedness; Exhibiting Itself In National Prejudice, National Conceit, And National Hatred. It Does Not Show Itself In Deeds, But In Boastings--in Howlings, Gesticulations, And Shrieking Helplessly For Help--in Flying Flags And Singing Songs--and In Perpetual Grinding At The Hurdy-gurdy Of Long-dead Grievances And Long-remedied Wrongs. To Be Infested By Such A Patriotism As This Is Perhaps Among The Greatest Curses That Can Befall Any Country.

The Highest Culture Is Not Obtained From The Teacher When At School Or College, So Much As By Our Ever Diligent Self-education When We Become Men.