So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.