Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

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.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.