All history is biography.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.