Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.

In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.