If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.

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.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

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.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

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