A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.