You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.