War can protect; it cannot create.

There is no nature at an instant.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.