Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.