Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!