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.

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.