A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.