Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

A noble book! all men's book!