All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

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

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

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!