Benjamin Jowett Quotes

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.