One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

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!

History is the distillation of rumour.