Time has only a relative existence.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.