Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important...

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very...