We were translating one day one of the choruses in AEschylus, I think in the Agamemnon, where the phrase occurs [Greek omitted], meaning "couches unvisited by the wind," which he most felicitously rendered "windlass bedsteads." Such is the vanity of human life that it is not uncommon that some hardworking, faithful and bright scholar is remembered only for one single saying, as Hamilton in the House of Commons was remembered for his single speech.

Another instance of this is that worthy and excellent teacher of Latin and Professor of History, Henry W.Torrey.

He was an instructor in college in our time, afterward left the college to teach a young ladies' school and came back again later as a Professor.
I presume if any member of the class of 1846 were asked about Torrey he would say: "Oh, yes.

He was an excellent Latin scholar, an excellent teacher in elocution and in history.
But all I remember of him is that on one occasion a man who professed to be learned in Egyptian antiquities advertised a course of lectures, one of which was to be illustrated by unrolling from a mummy the bandages which had been untouched since its interment, many centuries before Christ.

The savant claimed to be able to read the inscription on the cloth in which the mummy was wrapped and declared that it was the corpse of an Egyptian princess, whose name and history he related.
Having given this narrative and excited the expectation of his auditors, the wrappers were taken off and, alas, it turned out to be the body of a man.