We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

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

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

The many become one and are increased by one.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

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.