Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

It is never too late to do right.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.