We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.