I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.