I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Time hath a taming hand.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.