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

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

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

The food of hope is meditative action.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.