As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.