Leslie Stephen

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

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.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

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.

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

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.