Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Dissent without action is consent.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!