Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

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.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

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