"I turn to the past to learn its story without any preconceived opinion what that story may be. I do not assume that o…"

"What is tolerance nowadays? Is it a moral virtue in the possessor, or is it a recognition of a necessity arising from…"

"The possession of a clear and definite ideal of society seems to me dangerous to its possessors. The Mediaeval Church…"

"You judge the whole question of persecution more rigorously than I do. Society is an organism, and its laws are an ex…"

"Few men, I imagine, who become great started on their career with the intention of becoming so. The intention general…"

"I do not wish to command so much as to persuade. I wish to induce people to see themselves as others see them, to reg…"

"[A good teacher] brings knowledge and his pupil into a vital relationship; and the object of teaching is to establish…"

"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."

"... As for his scepticism, it was of a discriminating kind: it had its limits. It was the scepticism of a man endowed…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"