All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.