Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.