We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

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.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.