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

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

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

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.

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

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

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