To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.