I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.