Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

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

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

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.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.