Leslie Stephen — English Author born on November 28, 1832, died on February 22, 1904

Sir Leslie Stephen KCB was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, best known as the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell... (wikipedia)

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.