"I make no apology for the English metaphysicians.
They have made their mistakes.

They have their shortcomings.
But they are surely entitled to the common privilege of Englishmen -- to be judged by their peers." He was speaking one day of some rulers who had tried to check the rising tide of some reform by persecuting its leaders.

"Fools!" said the Doctor.
"They thought if they could but wring the neck of the crowing cock it would never be day." One of the delightful characters and humorists connected with Harvard was Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, tutor in Greek.

He was a native of Thessaly, born near Mount Pelion and educated in the convent of the Greek Church on Mount Sinai.
It is said, although such instances are rare, that he was of the purest Greek blood.

At any rate, his face and head were of the Greek type.