Nations Have Lost Their Old

Society Never Advances. It Recedes As Fast On One Side As It Gains On The Other. It Undergoes Continual Changes: It Is Barbarous, It Is Civilized, It Is Rich, It Is Scientific; But This Change Is Not Amelioration. For Every Thing That Is Given, Something Else Is Taken. Society Acquires New Arts And Loses Old Instincts.

No Man Gains Credit For His Cowardly Courtesies.

The Hero Is He Who Is Immovably Centered.

But Your Isolation Must Not Be Mechanical, But Spiritual, That Is, Must Be Elevation.

The Essence Of Greatness Is The Perception That Virtue Is Enough.