Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

There is no nature at an instant.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.