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

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

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.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

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.