Great Throughts Treasury

"The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to install ready-made opinions into his head."

"The philosophic mind is that which habitually sees the general in the particular, and finds food for the deepest thought in the simplest objects."

"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service."

"Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers."

"Chance is a name for our ignorance. "

"The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood."

"The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact."