There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.