Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.