Seeking is not always the way to find.

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

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

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.

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

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.