What to Aspire to ?

The study notes are necessary when learning a subject, howsoever useful a summary may be, it is only of use to one who knows it.

Pick up philosophy, & desire to be one yourself; as the soul can be roused to honourable things.

Just as the flames springs straight into the air, & cannot be kept down, our soul is more ardent, the greater its motion & activities.

Happy is the person who has given it to this impulse towards better things!

It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things & to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.

On Noble Aspirations