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.

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.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations