There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

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

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?