“Character is eternal; all other things are transient and fleeting. No ideal, perishable in itself, is worth striving for by an immortal soul.”

Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 287

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American classical philologist 1841–1931

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