“I have been reading Pusey’s Daniel the Prophet, which (thank God) completely—as I think and as very many will think with me—disposes of the rickety and crotchety arguments of those who vainly thought they had found a ποῦ στῶ in him whereby to upheave all prophecy and miracle.”

Expressing his confidence in a theological defence of prophecy and miracle · Letter to Alfred Tennyson, 1865

• Faith
• Truth

“It is reading round about a subject and not the subject itself which damages the intellect so much.”

Urging direct engagement with a subject rather than second-hand commentary · Letter to Alfred Tennyson, 1865

• Art
• Truth

“Again, at the Carnival in Rome, a man was stilettoed in his arms, drawing first suspicion and then violence on his person: the excess of which he prevented by exclaiming that he was an Englishman and had not done the deed.”

Relating another dramatic danger survived by his travelling father · Letter to John Frere, 27 July 1830

• Death
• Memory