The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.