We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.