Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.