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

- Benjamin Jowett

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and…

- Benjamin Jowett

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.

- Benjamin Jowett

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

- Benjamin Jowett

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

- Benjamin Jowett

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

- Benjamin Jowett

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

- Benjamin Jowett

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

- Benjamin Jowett

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

- Benjamin Jowett