War can protect; it cannot create.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.