We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

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

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.