It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

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

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

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

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.