A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

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

Growth is the only evidence of life.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.