Not Curiosity, Not Vanity, Not The Consideration

Education To Independence Demands That Young People Should Be Accustomed Early To Consult Their Own Sense Of Propriety And Their Own Reason. To Regard Study As Mere Receptivity And Memory Work Is To Have A Most Incomplete View Of What Instruction Means.

When We Walk The Streets At Night In Safety, It Does Not Strike Us That This Might Be Otherwise. This Habit Of Feeling Safe Has Become Second Nature, And We Do Not Reflect On Just How This Is Due Solely To The Working Of Special Institutions. Commonplace Thinking Often Has The Impression That Force Holds The State Together, But In Fact Its Only Bond Is The Fundamental Sense Of Order Which Everybody Possesses.

Public Opinion Contains All Kinds Of Falsity And Truth, But It Takes A Great Man To Find The Truth In It. The Great Man Of The Age Is The One Who Can Put Into Words The Will Of His Age, Tell His Age What Its Will Is, And Accomplish It. What He Does Is The Heart And The Essence Of His Age, He Actualizes His Age. The Man Who Lacks Sense Enough To Despise Public Opinion Expressed In Gossip Will Never Do Anything Great.

Everybody Allows That To Know Any Other Science You Must Have First Studied It, And That You Can Only Claim To Express A Judgment Upon It In Virtue Of Such Knowledge. Everybody Allows That To Make A Shoe You Must Have Learned And Practised The Craft Of The Shoemaker, Though Every Man Has A Model In His Own Foot, And Possesses In His Hands The Natural Endowments For The Operations Required. For Philosophy Alone, It Seems To Be Imagined, Such Study, Care, And Application Are Not In The Least Requisite

No Man Is A Hero To His Valet De Chamber