The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface..

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxi….

Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the gard….

It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more re….

Every reformation ruins somebody..

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher..

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's….

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship..

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation..

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities..

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure..