It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
Time hath a taming hand.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
Reason is God’s gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Somehow I am necessary for God’s purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.
With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Calculation never made a hero.
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.