An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

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

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.