Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other. Analysis, without a subsequent synthesis, is incomplete; it is a mean cut of from its end. Synthesis, without a previous analysis, is baseless; for synthesis receives from analysis the elements which it recomposes.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Be sober, and to doubt prepense,These are the sinews of good sense.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity — the doing nothing for him which he is able to do for himself.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shook, it shines.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet