If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

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