To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.