Man Is Emphatically Self-made.

The Attributes Of God, Though Intelligible To Us On Their Surface Yet, For The Very Reason That They Are Infinite, Transcend Our Comprehension, When They Are Dwelt Upon, When They Are Followed Out, And Can Only Be Received By Faith.

To Be Deep In History, Is To Cease To Be Protestant.

An Academical System Without The Personal Influence Of Teachers On Pupils, Is An Arctic Winter; It Will Create An Icebound, Petrified, Cast-iron University, And Nothing Else.

Make Me What Thou Wouldst Have Me. I Bargain For Nothing. I Make No Terms. I Seek For No Previous Information Whither Thou Art Taking Me. I Will Be What Thou Wilt Make Me, And All That Thou Wilt Make Me. I Say Not, I Will Follow Thee Whithersoever Thou Goest, For I Am Weak, But I Give Myself To Thee, To Lead Me Anywhither.

If Then A Practical End Must Be Assigned To A University Course, I Say It Is That Of Training Good Members Of Society... It Is The Education Which Gives A Man A Clear, Conscious View Of Their Own Opinions And Judgements, A Truth In Developing Them, An Eloquence In Expressing Them, And A Force In Urging Them. It Teaches Him To See Things As They Are, To Go Right To The Point, To Disentangle A Skein Of Thought To Detect What Is Sophistical And To Discard What Is Irrelevant.