A prudent consideration for Number One.

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

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.