What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.