Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

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

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.