Quotes from James McCosh

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.