88 Quotes by Thomas Campbell

O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander’d there, To waft us home the message of despair?

Our purpose is to grow up and become love.

Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger’s troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

Love’s a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.

For Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smile.

Our land, the first garden of liberty’s tree – It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.