Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

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

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.