To Seek, Beneath The Universal Strife, The

Cultivate Your Garden… Do Not Depend Upon Teachers To Educate You … Follow Your Own Bent, Pursue Your Curiosity Bravely, Express Yourself, Make Your Own Harmony… In The End, Education, Like Happiness, Is Individual, And Must Come To Us From Life And From Ourselves. There Is No Way; Each Pilgrim Must Make His Own Path. "happiness," Said Chamfort, "is Not Easily Won; It Is Hard To Find It In Ourselves, And Impossible To Find It Elsewhere.

In My Youth I Stressed Freedom, And In My Old Age I Stress Order. I Have Made The Great Discovery That Liberty Is A Product Of Order.

Nothing Is Often A Good Thing To Do And Always A Good Thing To Say.

A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without, Until It Has Destroyed Itself From Within. The Essential Causes Of Rome's Decline Lay In Her People, Her Morals, Her Class Struggle, Her Failing Trade, Her Bureaucratic Despotism, Her Stifling Taxes, Her Consuming Wars.

I Have Tried To Be Impartial, Though I Know That A Man's Past Always Colors His Views, And That Nothing Else Is So Irritating As Impartiality.