A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

War can protect; it cannot create.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.