Leslie Stephen

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

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

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.