A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Ambition has no rest.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

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