Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.