Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!