“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”

“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

“My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.”

“Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?”

“Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

“It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.”