“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”

“The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.”

“This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.”

“Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!”

“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.”

“He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more.”