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!

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 American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

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.

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

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

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