The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.