There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!