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

It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

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.

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.

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

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.