The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

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

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.

Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.