Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

Justice delayed is justice denied.