Honor Is Infinitely More Valuable Than Positions

A Writer Who Wishes To Be Read By Posterity Must Not Be Averse To Putting Hints Which Might Give Rise To Whole Books, Or Ideas For Learned Discussions, In Some Corner Of A Chapter So That One Should Think He Can Afford To Throw Them Away By The Thousand.

One Cannot Demand Of A Scholar That He Show Himself A Scholar Everywhere In Society, But The Whole Tenor Of His Behavior Must None The Less Betray The Thinker, He Must Always Be Instructive, His Way Of Judging A Thing Must Even In The Smallest Matters Be Such That People Can See What It Will Amount To When, Quietly And Self-collected, He Puts This Power To Scholarly Use.

If All Mankind Were Suddenly To Practice Honesty, Many Thousands Of People Would Be Sure To Starve.

With Prophecies The Commentator Is Often A More Important Man Than The Prophet.

Most Subjects At Universities Are Taught For No Other Purpose Than That They May Be Re-taught When The Students Become Teachers.