A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.