The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

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

But still try, for who knows what is possible?

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

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 have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.

I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?