Sublime

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

“The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature,” writes Emerson. “The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man.” Ultimately to say that people all share the same hopes and fears, are all born and love and suffer and die alike, is to s

Education, if it had ever really been in question, would doubtless have been a noble gift; education in the sense of the central tradition of history, with its freedom, its family honour, its chivalry which is the flower of Christendom.

Hegel fut probablement celui qui en fait le mieux la théorie : le grand homme est celui que l’histoire fait pour qu’il la fasse… Ruse de la raison, il est un produit de l’histoire qui s’arrange pour créer la main qui créera… la main de l’histoire. Le grand homme fait l’histoire qui fait le grand homme.

It is precisely those who have been conservative about the family who have been revolutionary about the state.

brethren,

A man’s first duty, a young man’s at any rate, is to be ambitious. Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms; there was something noble in the ambition of Attila or Napoleon: but the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind one something of permanent value—

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author's thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter-that is to say, what he has thought about it.