34 Quotes by George Iles

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.