Excerpt from The Scholar in a Republic: Address at the Centennial Anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College, June 30, 1881
"Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he had not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman competently wise in his mother dialect only." - Milton.
"I cannot hut think as Aristotle (lib. 6)did of Thales and Anaxagoras, that they may be learned but not wise, or wise but not prudent, when they are ignorant of such things as are profitable to them. For suppose they know the wonders of nature and the subtleties of metaphysics and operations mathematical, yet they cannot be prudent who spend themselves wholly upon unprofitable and ineffective contemplation." - Jeremy Taylor.
"The people, sir, are not always right."
"The people, Mr. Grey, are not often wrong." - Disraeli's "Vivian Grey."
"Chains are worse than bayonets." - Douglas Jerrold.
"Hadst thou known what freedom was, thou wouldst advise us to defend it not with swords but with axes." - Spartans to the Great King's Satrap.
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